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Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com or share it on our tips page.

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Organize App Icons More Efficiently

If you are using a wider phone (like most Android phones) and are right-handed, then put your most commonly used apps on the right side of the home screens. I am constantly just holding my phone with my right hand, and at least with my own hands (must be small), it can be hard to reach the left side of the screen with my thumb, making it pretty hard to open up the app I was intending to press sometimes. Try out a right-to-left pattern for most commonly used apps.

Google recently went through a slight overhaul of their instant preview feature, but the Google…
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Combine Rewards Cards

Bryan Quattlebaum offers this tip for minimizing the amount of space rewards cards take up in your wallet:

There is really no reason to have each store's reward card be the size of a credit card. That is why they often give out a key chain "mini-me" version. Either way, you either end up with a bursting wallet or bursting key case. My solution — trim down each rewards card until just the essential bar code remains. You can then place three (3) of them into one credit card-size lamination sheet. Viola! One card now takes the place of three.

You could also use an app like previously mentioned Key Ring to store all your loyalty cards, but this is a neat no-batteries-required and works-all-the-time way of carrying all those cards.

You can easily download OS X Mountain Lion from the App Store any time after purchasing it, but if…
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I created a new disk image, set the size to "4.6 GB (DVD-R/DVD-RAM)", then fired up Terminal and copied everything from the partition "Mac OS X Install ESD" to my new disk image, with a simple cp -R. Had to go to the Terminal because Finder hides a lot of the files in the installation image.

The resulting image is exactly the size of a single-layer DVD and still has ~300MB left.